Vikings and the DanelawA selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw. |
Contents
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3 The conversion of the Danelaw | 31 |
4 Repton and the great heathen army 8734 | 45 |
Viking burial in Derbyshire | 97 |
6 Pagan Scandinavian burial in the central and southern Danelaw | 105 |
aspects of AngloScandinavian minting south of the Humber | 125 |
8 AngloScandinavian urban development in the East Midlands | 143 |
decoding diversity in Danelaw stone sculpture | 223 |
13 The Southwell lintel its style and significance | 245 |
the search for AngloScandinavian rural settlementin the northern Danelaw | 269 |
15 In the steps of the Vikings | 279 |
some semantic problems | 289 |
17 How long did the Scandinavian language survive in England? Again | 299 |
18 Skaldic verse in Scandinavian England | 313 |
19 Eddic poetry in AngloScandinavian northern England | 327 |
9 Lincoln in the Viking Age | 157 |
the artefactual evidence | 181 |
11 The strange beast that is the English Urnes style | 203 |
20 Representations of the Danelaw in Middle English literature | 345 |
21 Hereward the Danelaw and the Victorians | 357 |
Other editions - View all
Vikings and the Danelaw James Graham-Campbell,Richard Hall,Judith Jesch,David N Parsons Limited preview - 2016 |
Vikings and the Danelaw James Graham-Campbell,Richard Hall,Judith Jesch,David N. Parsons No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Scandinavian artefacts Biddle Blackburn bones British brooches bryggja burial Cemetery Christian church Cnut coinage coins context cultural Danelaw Danes Danish decorated Denmark Derbyshire Domesday Domesday Book earlier early East Anglia East Midlands eastern England ecclesiastical Edward the Elder Ekwall eleventh century elite evidence example excavations Fellows-Jensen finds Five Boroughs Graham-Campbell grave Guthrum Havelok History hoard Icelandic Ingleby king Kjølbye-Biddle late ninth later Lincoln Lincolnshire Lindsey lintel medieval Mercia metalwork Minster moneyers monuments motifs mound Norfolk Norman Norse northern Northumbria Nottingham Nottinghamshire original pagan perhaps period personal names place-names poem pottery probably recorded Repton Richards Roman saga Scandinavian settlement settlers Shetelig Southwell Southwell Minster St Michael Stamford Stamfordshire Stocker stone sculpture suggest surviving sword tenth century Torksey transept Trent twelfth century Urnes style Urnes-style Viking Age Viking-Age Wessex Whitelock Wigford York Yorkshire Yorkshire Wolds Þrymskviða